Redtail Rise imitation

if she'd harbored any doubt that the boy was Ashlar's, it dissipates as quickly as he'd run right into her flank.

she'd smelled him coming, but hadn't expected the collision. Avicus grimaces at the sound of his teeth chattering and wheels to stare down at the youth, eyes slightly blazing.

small, quiet, deferent. Ashlar's boy.

hi, Avicus responds, terse but not unkind. she steps away to give them a little more space, and still more away from the smell of her scent-marking, now acrid upon the wind. 

your name. . .Reki? she guesses; she's heard it before in passing, but this is the first their paths have crossed since he had taken refuge on the Rise.